Douglas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2020
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Davis v. Alaska · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Hines v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the [omitted] testimony would not have required a jury to acquit [the defendant], his burden here is to show only a reasonable probability of a different outcome, not that a different outcome would have been certain or even more likely than not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Counsel's failure to investigate is unreasonable where ... it resulted from inattention and not from reasoned strategic judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.